The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-04-21

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mating men for office should incur
the displeasure Of many as there is
not an office for each sof them. He
has evidently acted conscientiously
and with commendable courage in.
the discharge of his official duties.
Mr.. Geo. 7. Riddle, cashier of the
Peoples Bank, does not see any in
consistency in the governors posi-
lions on the educational question,
and neither does he believe that a
man must always advocate an
opinion because he once did-that it
does not argue inconsistency be-
cause man changes his opinion
when he finds he is wrong or when
the premises change. He believes
strongly in Bob Taylor.
Esq. W. A. Beaver says: cit is
my opinion that the attack on Gov.
Taylor is unjust, and while 1 disa-
gree with him in some matters, |
accord him honesty-politically and
personal"
Mr.. Ed. B. Craig says: II re-
gard the war waged on Gov. Taylor
through and by the American as di-
abolical and detrimental to every
good interest of the state.'
Mr.. Chas. Smith endorses the
governor in his action throughout
and thinks he has been unnecessa-
rily and cruelty villifed.
Mr.. Jones Lightfoot is for Bob
Taylor against the world.
Rev. L. r. Amis thinks the at
tack is disgraceful in the extreme
Mr.. R. Van Brown says the war
on Bob Taylor is a doggone shame
and that he has to do something
worse than he has to keep him from
being for hun for governor again.
DR.. W. E. Wilson says: at is
my opinion that the unfriendly
criticism of the official acts of our
honorable governor is nothing less
than malicious persecution of a
good and true man, by envious and
scheming politicians, who hope to
so poison public opinion by their
persistent, unjust denunciations,
that they may rid themselves of q
Formidable rival for future honor
and preferment. The truth is "Our
Bob was vastly too popular with
the masses to please some who pro-
fessed to be his friends, and now
that they have turned against him
nothing is too bitter for them to
say. Shame on such unmanly, ma
licious warfare!
Hume R. Steele, esq'r, says: cit
seems to be an organized effort to
smirch the character and political
| ly kill the governor, chiefly be-
cause he refused to be 'bossed.'"
Hon. Flournoy Rivers says: 81
do verify believe that he will be
more triumphantly renominated
than any man who has been gov
ernor of Tennessee since the days
OF John Sewer"
| Mr.. R. c. Reynolds says: Il am
ready to fight for Bob Taylor and
see no reason for any dissatisfac-
tion and regard the assaults upon
him as unjust in the extreme
Mr.. j. Sam. Childers say: at all
grows out the fact that Mr..
Taylor proposes to be governor
himself. l see no discrepancy in
his statements on the educational
question. | was not for him before,
but you can put me down now as a
Bob Taylor democrat"
Mr.. F. G. Buford says: cit is a
shame, disgrace and blot ON the
fair name of the great state OF
Tennessee"
Hon. Thos. B. Harwell says:
There is nothing in all l. haye
} seen that convinces me that the
governor has done anything dishon-
orab!e."
Mr.. Owen Smith says he is a
Bob Taylor man now, whereas he
was not before.
Mr.. c. C. Brown thinks the war
is made on him because Col. Coop
er could not use him.
Mr.. Newt. White says: "There
is not another man in Giles county
stronger for Bob Taylor than l am
and | can whip any man that abuses
him."
Mr.. viii S. Ezell says: 81 see
no Inconsistency and Iendorse him
asfar as l know his opinions. L have
implicit confidence IN his integrity
and consider the war on him as
very wrong and without ground"
Mr.. G. a. Pope says: 81 admire
the independence of the governor in
lifting himself aloof from the rings,
ossbacks and mugwumps, and in
the soundness of his views upon
federal aid to education without fed
eral supervision"
Mr.. L. W. McCord says: 81
think more of Bob Taylor than ]
ever did. The foul attack upon
him ought to and will recoil upon
those who have conspired to ruin
him. 1t will cement the people
throughout the state against the
conspirators and make him more
popular than ever"
Elk Senator Edmundson "regards
the charges against Gov. Taylor
with supreme contempt. My con-
fdence in him is unshaken-per-
sonally and politically"
James G. Blaine.
Boston Herald,